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Everyone walked away with minor injuries. This Piaggio P-180 is in the hangar that houses our MU-2. They landed with one engine shut down. After touchdown the airplane went off the runway onto wet, muddy turf. It started to roll and dug the right wing into the earth about 8 feet before it snapped off the tip.
On the runway there is a skid mark from a locked wheel. They left the runway on the side with the operating engine. I surmise that the pilot was a bit too aggressive going into reverse.
Javelin
UltimaDork
4/6/12 1:58 p.m.
Ouch. 
Bet that's an expensive write-off...
One of those goes over my house fairly regularly, a very distinctive sound. That exhaust through the prop sound is easy to pick up, similar effect on the Long-EZ.
that must of been an exciting ride..
Are those gas turbine engines or piston engines? Dibs on the turbines if that's what they are. LOL Would be awesome in the P71...
In reply to Conquest351:
Turbine, Pratt and Whitney Canada PT-6. The one that they shut down is fine. The other one is junk.
That's too bad the airplane was written off due to a lack of control on a fairly basic procedure. Is the runway short?
Must have been a hell of a ride once they started landscaping the airport.
Ok, just send me that engine. Kthanks...
I'm fairly certain they didn't walk away. They ran.
Poor Piaggio, I love those things.
expensive plane to do landscaping with
Avantair's first crash! I remember this happening around November, a family member has a contract with them and we teased him about it at Thanksgiving.
Nnnnooooooooo! Not an Avanti!
Sounds similar to the one where the 80 yr old woman,who was not a pilot, landed the plane after her husband passed out.
ok.. nobody else said it..
"that'll buff out!"
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